b'115811 PROVENANCEPatriotic bunting with Australian and British flags,The Professor Stephen Bartos Collection, Canberra.mid 20th century, Bonhams, Sydney, 25 November 2013, Lot 103.3.5m long This important campaign chest with direct links to Australian $100200military history was sourced from the property of Captain C. Chauvel, an old Indian army man, who along with other 812 members of the Chauvel family settled at Tabulam Station in the northern rivers district of N.S.W. in the 1880s.Two vintage Australian flags, stitched cotton, (with repairs),In 1885 the Chauvel family responded to potential Russian 20th century, threats and in true patriotic fervour formed the two troops approx. 85 x 165cm each (2) of the Upper Clarence Light Horse, No 1 (Tabulam) and $200300No 2 (Border). On 1 January 1886 celebrations were held at McLeans Hotel Tabulam with the swearing in of 129 men and 813 subsequent banquet toasting the Queen, with the Chauvel BOER WAR: Various books, including Raiders and Rebels infamily presiding.South Africa by Green [1898], War in South Africa and theThis was to form the nucleus of what was to become the Dark Continent. by Harding [1899], How We Kept The Flagfamous Australian Light Horse, which first served during the Flying by Macdonald [1900], The War in South Africa - Itsgreat Shearers and Barrier Miners strike of the 1890s, with Causes and Effects by Hobson [1900], Khaki and Gownlater service in the Boer War (1889-1902). It was the sport of by Lord Birdwood [1941], plus 2 other titles. (Total: 7 vols.). these horsemen to engage in emu chasing on the western $100150plains with the trophy emu feathers being worn in their hats. This is the image that is now synonymous with the Anzac legend. The Chauvel family continued to have important links 814 with the Australian Light Horse. Harry Chauvel was to become N.S.W. FIRE BRIGADE antique brass helmet with original chinGeneral and presided over the last great cavalry charge in strap and black leather lining, 19th century, military history, with the taking of Beersheba in 1917 during $250350the Desert Campaign in Palestine. A nephew of General Chauvel, Charles Chauvel, was to become the filmmaker who 815 directed Forty Thousand Horsemen in 1940.R.C. LEWIS, D.S.O. (Major), $6,0008,000On the Veldt : A Plain Narrative of Service Afield in South Africa,[Hobart : J. Walch & Sons, 1902, 1st ed.], 160pp with folding map tipped in to inside back cover; original brown cloth with red lettering and decoration. Previous owners inscription G. Maxwell 1902 to title page.$300500 816Philip A. WILKINS, The History of the Victoria Cross - Being an account of the 520 Acts of Bravery for which the decoration has been awarded, and reports of 392 Recipients, [London : Archibald Constable & Co., 1904, 1st ed.], 443pp.$100150 817The 11th BATTALION AT CHEOPS, framed facsimile photographic print,77 x 108cm overall$120200 818THE CHAUVEL CAMPAIGN CHEST.An Anglo-Indian teak and brass bound military campaign chest, circa 1870,property of Captain (later Major) C.G.T. Chauvel, 35th Madras Native Infantry, who had settled in the Mudgee district in the early 1880s, after retiring from the army;the rectangular top with brass corners above four long drawers with reeded decoration and brass handles, iron carrying handles to the sides; in two sections, on iron castors,the top section inscribed Capt. CGT Chauvel 35th Regiment, No 10, the lower section inscribed Capt Chauvel, No 11, 75cm wide,81835cm deep, 91cm high.'